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08/02/2016
Beat The Rain – a love story about dysfunctional people All relationships start out as love stories. But they don’t all end as one. In the past, in the beige neutrality of our flat with lawn mowers and televisions and […]
19/04/2017
If she’s touched his knee once, she’s touched it twenty times… excerpt, Beat The Rain The dinner party continues and Louise’s friend Alice and her new boyfriend John arrive. He seems nice to Adam in a nondescript kind of way. Not […]
01/05/2017
She doesn’t watch him all the time. She’s not weird… excerpt, Beat The Rain She started watching him shortly after she met him. Not stalking him, she’s not weird or anything. But he’s living in the flat above the […]
08/10/2017
What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it turns out… The name Nigel is dying a death… as a baby name, it is on the verge of extinction. This year saw no new Nigels. Not one. As a Nigel myself, […]
24/11/2017
Nobody plans to be homeless The Pursuit of Ordinary, an extract Dan lay awake on the sofa, trying to forget his nightmare and listening to the heart beating in his chest, wondering why it felt like someone else’s. When he […]
29/01/2018
Who gets to say what’s normal? Excerpt, The Pursuit of Ordinary ‘Dad,’ he said, eventually. ‘Hold on, I want to watch the news,’ his dad replied, flapping a hand at him, as if to shoo him away.‘Dad, I’m serious,’ Dan […]